Community Review of “Songs of the Sea” Singapore

[south west] future modal; [temperatures] are expected to be [in the high 80s] present polar phasal]; [coastal sections] could get [an inch or more of rain] future modal. Examples from the culinary texts: [this soup] comes [from Northern Thailand] present polar; simmer [for 15 minutes] polar; continue to boil polar phasal; continue cooking and stirring [for 15 minutes] polar phasal; [they] will not require [any further cooking] future polar.

2.4 Community Review of “Songs of the Sea” Singapore

Songs of the Sea is a multimedia show located at Siloso Beach on Sentosa Island, Singapore. Designed by ECA2 founder, Yves Pepin, Songs of the Sea started its operations on 26 March 2007, a day after the Sentosa Musical Fountain ceased operations. The fountain is a30 miilion investment by Sentosa to enhance its entertainment product offerings and to attract more tourists. It is the world’s only permanent show set in the sea – with spectacular pyrotechnics displays, water jets that could not shoot up to 40 meters, laser show, flame bursts, a live 7 person casts, and an open-air viewing gallery which can comfortably accommodate 2.500 visitors. As the 25-years-old Musical Fountain ceased operations in 26 March 2007, to make way for the development of Resorts World Sentosa, a new musical fountain was introduced in view of the closure of Magical Sentosa. The new multimediamusical fountain was built at Siloso Beach on Sentosa Island, near Beach Station. Songs of the Sea is a multi-million dollar sea spectacular that showcases a lively display of pyrotechnics, lasers, water jets that could shoot up to 40 meters, flame bursts, computer animation, captivating music and performance by a ‘live’ cast. Songs of the Sea Kelong drenched in the sunset before the show. The beach and the sea are the stage for the show. A stretch of wooden houses was built across the shoreline to create a Malay kampong, or more commonly known as a kelong. It is actually a work of art that is 120 meters 390 ft long, while the rest of the equipment water jets, water screens, lasers and projectors are being hidden at the back of the kelong. There are a total of 69 water jets capable of reaching a height of 40 m 131 ft and flames leaping up to a height of 20 m 66 ft. the show has run twice a night at 7.40 p.m. and 8.40 p.m., and lasted 25 minutes. Furthermore, in this research, the researcher actually will not discuss about the ongoing process of the show but the researcher will discuss about the review of the people after seeing this spectacular show, “Songs of the Sea” Singapore. The review itself is taken from www.tripadvisor.com where the people can share their opinions or responses about “Songs of the Sea” show. Tripadvisor.com itself is a travel website that assists customers in gathering travel information, posting reviews and opinions of travel-related content and engaging in interactive travel forums. Tripadvisor was an early adopter of user-generated content. The website services are free to users, who provide most of the content, and the website is supported by an advertising business model.

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD

To get a good result from this research, the researcher employed a research method consisting of research design, unit of analysis, source of data, technique of data collection, and technique of data analysis.

3.1 Research Design

In this research, the researcher used qualitative descriptive method. Issac and Michael 1987:42 states that, “The purpose of descriptive research is to describe systematically the facts and the characteristics of a given population or area of interest, factually and accurately.” The research used descriptive qualitative method, which is intended to construe the meaning from the content of Community Review of “Songs of The Sea” Singapore on March 2013.

3.2 Unit of Analysis

The unit of analysis in this study is each sentence found in Community Review of “Songs of the Sea” Singapore on March 2013 and then analyze them into sequence, figure, and elements.

3.3 Source of Data